Feedly
The RSS reader for professionals, with AI summaries and team boards.
Free, paid from $6.99/mo
- Largest feed catalog and discovery directory
- Leo AI for summarisation and trigger alerts
- Team boards for collaborative research
Compare Feedly and Raindrop side by side on features, pricing, and the workflows each one is designed for.
The RSS reader for professionals, with AI summaries and team boards.
Free, paid from $6.99/mo
All-in-one bookmark manager with collections, tags, and a polished UI across every platform.
Free, paid from $3/mo
Here's how Feedly and Raindrop compare across the features people actually look for. They share 13 core capabilities; the differences show up in what each tool focuses on.
| Feature | Feedly | Raindrop |
|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | ||
| Browser extension | Chrome, Firefox | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge |
| Mobile apps | iOS, Android | iOS, Android |
| Save from email | ||
| Save tweets | Partial | |
| Save YouTube videos | Via channel feed | Partial |
| Save GitHub stars | ||
| Save PDFs | Full-text search Pro only | |
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | PDF, EPUB, images, video | |
| Save audio files | mp3, wav, aiff, flac | |
| Save via API | ||
| Auto-sync sources | ||
| RSS auto-sync | Via IFTTT applet | |
| YouTube channel sync | ||
| X bookmarks sync | ||
| GitHub stars sync | ||
| Newsletter inbox sync | Pro | |
| Library and reading | ||
| Reader view | ||
| Offline reading | ||
| Full-text search | Pro | Pro |
| Semantic / AI search | Pro+ (Leo) | Pro (Stella) |
| Highlights | ||
| Notes | ||
| Tags | Boards | |
| Collections | Boards | Nested |
| Public sharing | ||
| Full-text RSS extraction | Pro | |
| AI and agents | ||
| Markdown export for AI agents | ||
| Bulk markdown export | ||
| MCP server | Official server | |
| CLI tool | ||
| Claude Code skill | ||
| AI summaries | Pro+ (Leo) | Pro (Stella) |
| Public API | ||
| Import and export | ||
| OPML import / export | ||
| Pocket import | ||
| Instapaper import | ||
| CSV / JSON export | Partial | HTML, CSV, TXT only |
| Send to Kindle |
Feedly is free, paid from $6.99/mo and Raindrop is free, paid from $3/mo. The tier that fits best usually comes down to how many items you save each month.
Free
Up to 100 feeds, basic reader.
Pro
Unlimited feeds, newsletters, OPML, full-text search. Annual billing.
Pro+
Leo AI, boards with notes and highlights, web alerts, Zapier/IFTTT. Annual billing only.
Enterprise
Threat Intelligence, Market Intelligence. Custom pricing.
Free
Unlimited bookmarks, collections, tags, sync devices. 100 MB/month uploads.
Pro
Full-text search, permanent web archive, 10 GB/month uploads, Stella AI assistant, annotations on highlights.
Both tools do their category well, but the specifics differ. Here's what each one is good at and where it tends to fall short.
Feedly is the largest RSS reader on the web, with a free tier capped at 100 feeds and Pro/Pro+ plans that layer on AI summaries (Leo), team boards, web alerts, and enterprise intelligence. Pro is $6.99/mo, Pro+ is $12.99/mo (annual billing only), and Enterprise covers the threat and market intelligence verticals at custom pricing. The product has spent the last several years pivoting from consumer RSS to a serious monitoring and research platform. The free tier is still a legitimate RSS reader; the paid tiers are increasingly aimed at analysts, PR teams, and security researchers who need to track topics across thousands of sources.
Raindrop is a bookmark manager with polished apps on every major platform, a generous free tier with unlimited bookmarks, and a surprisingly thorough AI layer for Pro users. Pro is $3/mo ($28/yr) and unlocks full-text search across saved pages and PDFs, the Stella AI assistant, a permanent web archive, reminders, and annotations on highlights. Highlights themselves are free on every tier. The product quietly got ambitious on AI in 2025. There's an official MCP server at /rest/v2/ai/mcp that works with Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, VS Code with Copilot, Windsurf, and Zed, plus an open REST API with OAuth and token auth.